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The career of the Hegelian theologian Bruno Bauer is marked by his radical and sudden turn from a defender of Christianity into one of its most extreme critics, from a champion of orthodox Christianity into what one of his admirers called a "Robespierre of Theology." Although his many theological and historical writings are largely unread today, his ideas influenced his own age and have found reflection in the works of such twentieth-century thinkers as the theologian Hans Küng and the philosopher Jürgen Habermas.
Bauer was born on 6 September 1809 in Eisenberg, Martin Luther's birthplace, to Friedrich Wilhelm Bauer, a porcelain painter, and Caroline Wilhelmine Bauer, née Reichardt. He was the oldest of four brothers; the others were Egbert, born in 1811; Egino, born in 1813; and Edgar, born in 1820. In 1815, Friedrich moved his family to Berlin, where he entered into secure employment at the royal porcelain factory.
Bauer's parents were pious Lutherans who wanted Bruno, their favorite son, to become a minister.
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